Musaeum Gottwaldianum and Its Afterlife in Russia Cover Image

Musaeum Gottwaldianum i jego losy w Rosji
Musaeum Gottwaldianum and Its Afterlife in Russia

Author(s): Daria D. Nowgorodowa
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Physical Geopgraphy, Environmental interactions, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Musaeum Gottwaldianum; Kunstkamera; mineral collection; Gottwald; Mineralogical Museum; catalogue of minerals; Breyne; mosaics; marble;

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to discuss the Russian period of Musaeum Gottwaldianum. The collection bought by the emperor Peter the Great formed a part of the first Russian museum – St. Petersburg’s Kunstkammer. The author discusses problems and perspectives of attribution of various pieces being formerly a part of Musaeum Gottwaldianum and nowadays of numerous Russian museums’ collections. In Fersman Mineralogical Museum seven Florentine marble stone mosaics were identified. Their attribution to Musaeum Gottwaldianum is proved by the 18th c. catalogues. Also a dessert spoon used by Polish King John III Sobieski depicted in watercolour, nowadays in the Hermitage collection, was a part of Musaeum Gottwaldianum.

  • Issue Year: 46/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 109-137
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish